![]() ![]() PGA Frisco has already signed up to host 26 tournaments through to 2034, including the first of two PGA Championships in 2027 and two KPMG Women’s PGA Championships, with plenty of other opportunities on the horizon. The project is a partnership between the PGA of America, developer Omni Stillwater Woods, the city of Frisco, its Economic and Community Development Corporations, and the Frisco Independent School District. The 600-acre site in the north of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, once home to Bert Fields’ Headquarters Ranch, also includes a short course and practice areas, as well as office space, a hotel and conference centre, a retail village and parks and open space. The two courses are part of a $520 million development that sees Frisco become the new home of the PGA of America. The East, by Gil Hanse, will open on 30 May after the conclusion of the KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship (24-28 May). ![]() PGA Frisco in Texas is opening its Fields Ranch West golf course, designed by Beau Welling, on 2 May. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Under the Mesquite received the prestigious Pura Belpre Author Award, was a William C. Guadalupe Garcia McCall is the author of Under the Mesquite (Lee & Low Books), a novel in verse. Will piecing together the truth heal Grace and her sister, or will the echoes destroy everything that she holds dear? And as Grace's echoes bring ghosts and premonitions, they also bring memories of when Grace fled to Mexico to the house of her maternal grandmother-a woman who Grace had been told died long ago. One morning, as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes.Īttending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. ![]() In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited from her mother-visions which often distort her reality. In this triumphant new novel, Pura Belpré Award-winning author Guadalupe García McCall explores sisterhood, family secrets, intergenerational trauma, life, and love in a modern Gothic setting with a magical realist twist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercedes Lackey has won prestigious awards and been nominated for other awards which transcend her literary work. The ensuing plot will whet your appetite for more of her books, and made Mercedes Lackey one of the contestants for the Locus Poll Awards (1988) in the Best First Novel category. Her commendable action earns her a job wherein she is made one of the Heralds.īy and by, Talia chances upon a coup plan and this sparks her quest for cushioning the queen. The first book in the sub-series, Arrows of the Queen, starts by revisiting how Talia, a youthful escapee, saved a well-known Companion (a horse-like magical creature). The launch pad of the mini-series is Talia, who is an escapee and has now been offered a job relating to royal affairs. Incidentally, a Herald is a high-profile profession and Valdemar is the fictitious nation of planet Velgath they form the basis of the books by Mercedes Lackey. ![]() The first book portraying Talia Sensedaughter was published in mid-1987 titled Arrows of the Queen, and the sub-series of novels are shelved as speculative fiction genre (specifically fantasy literature).įor starters, Talia Sensedaughter is a Herald of the Valdemar’s queen. Talia Sensedaughter is the featured protagonist in the “Heralds of Valdemar” sub-series of books authored by Mercedes Lackey. ![]() ![]() ![]() His 1987 novel Norwegian Wood was a comparatively straightforward and wistful tale of young love that made him a star in Japan. His early novels were postmodern potboilers, detective stories with a philosophical bent, like 1982’s A Wild Sheep Chase and its 1988 sequel, Dance Dance Dance. Murakami is among the most prolific of contemporary novelists, and his books have traversed many styles and themes. ![]() Novelist as a Vocation, in this way, is like so many of his novels, and it hinges on a trick at which Murakami is well practiced: the promise of revelation that turns out to be a disappearing act. ![]() Murakami’s impulse is to document these lives without worrying too much about explaining them. ![]() The novelist’s protagonists are often people adrift, destabilized by something that never quite comes into focus-sometimes a psychic trauma, sometimes a paranormal force. But Novelist as a Vocation is elusive for another reason, too: Much like Murakami’s fiction, it’s a work more interested in questions than in answers. Having published 14 novels and five collections of stories in his 40-plus-year career, Murakami surely knows that whatever fiction requires of an artist can’t be distilled into steps like a recipe. ![]() ![]() ![]() But even a middle book from Roanhorse is still a book from Roanhorse, with all the excellent plot machinations and stellar prose that readers know to expect from her. There’s a lot of cleaning up after the end of Book 1 and more setting the stage for what's to come. ![]() The second in a trilogy, this novel does suffer from some inevitable pitfalls. And Naranpa, the dethroned Sun Priest, literally crawls out from a tomb and discovers that she and her opposite, Serapio, may not be such opposites after all. Xiala, meanwhile, is desperate to find Serapio but is lost in an unfamiliar city and eventually makes some uneasy alliances in order to protect him. Serapio learns that he can’t necessarily trust everyone from Carrion Crow and also that he will continue to be treated not as a human being but as a weapon for the clan. One of the giant crows of clan Carrion Crow rescued him, and Okoa, the captain of the Shield, is nursing him back to health. Having executed his dark purpose as the Crow God’s human avatar and causing a mysterious eclipse that blocks the sun over the city of Tova, Serapio wakes up gravely injured. ![]() The much-anticipated second book in Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky series finds Serapio, Naranpa, and Xiala scrambling to find their footing after the explosive ending of Black Sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() In each time period, humanity has dealings with a supercomputer called Multivac. The Last Question takes place in seven time periods, each one set further in our future. The one thing that might have turned him, and made him surrender his quest… ![]() The Devil (Mara) tempted the Buddha with a plenitude of material – though temporal – distractions.īut there was one thing that Mara never dangled in front of the Buddha… The result: The Last Question, published in 1956.īuddhism features three marks of existence. Long before talk of the technological singularity, the point at which human-computer interfaces are seamless, Asimov was considering the future fate of a post bio-mechanical humanity.īefore we pondered transhumanism, techno-pagansim and cyber-shamanism, Asimov wondered about the epistemological truths that might be whispered by the ghosts in the machines. Before Douglas Adams posited that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything was 42, Isaac Asimov was pondering the same question. ![]() ![]() That specific lesson and value also highlights a feature of Creativity, Inc. that is unusual in today’s surplus of writing on creativity and innovation across industries and markets. The tenet of intensive, democratic collaboration appears here as the belief in anyone being able to talk to anyone else at Pixar about their work, for example, and Catmull conveys it in his memorable recounting of how Toy Story taught him the value of bringing together product managers with artists and technicians. However, Catmull and Wallace make them compelling through tales of their implementation. Many of the ideas here, from fearless ideation and collaboration to tireless communication, are not surprising. Particularly impressive here is an insistence on linking ideas about creative work to behaviors (even ones that ultimately fail). ![]() Yet with characteristic sagacity, Catmull makes clear how these principles should be viewed as starting points rather than ends to be achieved. Indeed, the book’s last words are to avoid confusing the process with the goal and always to remember that that goal is “making the product great.” From managing fear and failure in an organization to protecting new ideas and imposing productive limits, these are 33 gems. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last chapter titled “Thoughts for Managing a Creative Culture,” offers a master class in creative leadership. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Willard has a knack for insight in an age before forensic psychology. Instead of being rehabbed and sent back to the front, the powers that be have other plans. The story starts during the Blitz and our hero, RAF Group Captain James Willard gets shot down and is heavily injured. If you didn’t know, Wolf Hunter is a spy story set in World War 2. I really believe this is one spy thriller that is not going to look like any other out there. Of course I also have to mention the veteran Mike W Belcher on letters, without him my dialogue written would be literally worthless. AJ Cassetta, John Martin, and Martin Murtonen went really hard on this one. Honestly though, the artists working on this project really made it their own and elevated Wolf Hunter to a level I couldn’t imagine. Wolf Hunter is my first comic book and has been rattling around in my brain for a few years. Obviously I have some bias here, but I think this is a really good pair of books. One that it looks like you guys were prepared for, because we funded over the weekend! In fact you guys got us over 50% before the first official day! Holy cow, thank you all so much! We’re back at it again with another Kickstarter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Savage Prince is book one of the Savage Trilogy, set in the same world as Ruthless King, however you do not need to read the Mount Trilogy to devour this scandalously hot new story. I’ll have her my way, even if it means dragging her into the darkness. My lifestyle suits the savage I am, and she doesn’t.īut Temperance Ransom is my newest addiction, and I’m nowhere near ready to quit her yet. I knew I shouldn’t touch her, but it didn’t stop me.ĭidn’t stop me the second time either. I don’t follow anyone’s rules-even my own. ![]() Who knew things could get even darker and dirtier in New Orleans? New York Times bestselling author Meghan March introduces the Savage Prince of the city, the man you never want to meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Together, their stories tell a gripping tale that’s seemingly unfamiliar, yet unmistakably universal in the way that their tentative friendships may have to be their saving grace. ![]() Returning to Korea after college, she finds herself in a precarious relationship with the super-wealthy heir to one of Korea’s biggest companies.ĭown the hall in their apartment building lives Ara, a hair stylist for whom two preoccupations sustain her: obsession with a boy-band pop star, and a best friend who is saving up for the extreme plastic surgery that is commonplace.Īnd Wonna, one floor below, is a newlywed trying to get pregnant with a child that she and her husband have no idea how they can afford to raise and educate in the cutthroat economy. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. ![]() Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a “room salon,” an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. ![]() |